Who said you get to make the rules?

;-)

On Sep 24, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Alistair Bell wrote:

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> sorry, the subject was water, not acidic or basic  solutions
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> not splitting hairs, just being accurate.
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> "water is the universal solvent"
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> not water plus anything else.
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> alistair
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> On 24-Sep-10, at 10:07 AM, Mark Hineline wrote:
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> Now we need to split hairs. No one has said anything about the
> purity of the water. Water in the real world tends to be acidic or
> basic. Mildly acid water will do a number on calcium carbonate,
> which, the last time I looked, is the primary component of limestone
> and marble. And dolemite, if I remember my rocks.
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> Mark
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